The number of minority students attending American colleges and universities jumped 48% in the 1990's, with all minorities posting double digit gains in college enrollment, according to a study by the American Council on Education. ... It also should be noted that "the report did not, however, explain the degree to which increases in the total student age population during the 1990's lifted enrollment figures." All of these statistics show how much the minority population is being discriminated against. While helping the minority population, there is some backlash that is occur...

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The sentencing of death is claimed to have double standards based on these characteristics. ... The numbers are indeed higher but I don"t think that when people see these charts, they are considering the fact that the number of people and the percentages are close between the African Americans and the Caucasians, but African Americans only make up twelve percent of the population today. ... They say at www.coadp.org that there is a double standard for the rich and the poor. ...

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The unemployment rate among blacks is more than double that of whites, keeping millions of impoverished blacks poor. ... An inordinate 40% of the prison population is of black descent, whereas they make up only 13% of the American populace. ...

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Historical Background of The Harlem Renaissance Between 1900-1920 the number of blacks in Harlem doubled, as did the black populations in many other northern cities. ... Beginning there, those sitting in restaurants, coming out of theatres, standing in doorways and looking out of windows are practically all Blacks; and then he emerges where the population suddenly becomes white again. ... By 1920, black Harlem had extended from 130th to 145th Street with a population of about 73,000 b;acls. 66.9 percent of Manhattan's blacks. ...

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Again the middle class urban population continued to prosper with massive technology and machinery increasing productivity people were pouring into the cities. ... With the nation ever expanding and advancing it's no surprise that the nation doubled its capacity to generate electricity. ...

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According to an article by Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Globe, the average black person earning $60,000 or more per year lives in an area with double the poverty rate than an area that the average white person earning less than $30,000 resides. ... Racial isolation is often defined by a 90/10 rule representing that a block's population is made up of ninety percent like-raced residents and ten percent of another race. ...

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